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Shut Up and Read

A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop

By: Jeannine A. Cook
Narrated by: Jeannine A. Cook
Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

“Narrated by the author, this is absolutely a book that should be listened to for the full experience as Jeannine takes you through her journey of struggle, growth and triumph. Whether or not you are living in the States, if you love community, history and books, this is for you. Read more

Darkology

Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment

By: Rhae Lynn Barnes
Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
Length: TBA

A groundbreaking history, decades in the making, that chronicles how blackface dominated American society culturally, financially, and racially for nearly two centuries.Never before has the disturbing story of blackface and its piercing reflection of American society been so comprehensively told. Darkology, from Princeton historian Rhae... Read more about Darkology

Whidbey

A Novel

By: T Kira Madden
Narrated by: Eunice Wong, Christina Moore, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw & Rebecca Lowman
Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

A Most Anticipated Book by People • Vogue • Esquire • Harper’s Bazaar • USA Today • Seattle Times • Bookpage •Chicago Review of Books • Crimereads • Goodreads • The Millions • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews • Book Riot • Literary Hub . . . and many more! “Epic in its scope, intimate in its evocation, Whidbey reads like a thriller, compels... Read more about Whidbey

Honeysuckle

A Novel

By: Bar Fridman-Tell
Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth & Geraint Rhys
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

“A powerful mix of darkness and light, of love and control, of joy and sorrow, of captivity and the path to freedom. A unique coming of age story that will resonate long after the story ends. Read more

Salt Lakes

An Unnatural History

By: Caroline Tracey
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: TBA

More than a hundred salt lakes dot Earth's surface, most of them hidden away in remote desert valleys. But today nearly all of them are at risk of drying up. Their death is a harbinger of rising sea levels, life-threatening dust storms, and environmental collapse.Writer and geographer Caroline Tracey didn't know this when she began crossing... Read more about Salt Lakes

When the Forest Breathes

Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World

By: Suzanne Simard
Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
Length: TBA

The author of Finding the Mother Tree and scientist who pioneered the concept of sophisticated communication between trees, Suzanne Simard now offers a powerful vision for saving our forests based on nature’s deep-rooted cycles of renewal.

"A masterclass on the inner workings of forests. . . . This is science as an act of love for the world.”... Read more about When the Forest Breathes

The Beauty of Being Weird

A Psychologist's Guide to Living Guilt-Free

By: Sergi Rufi
Narrated by: Anthony Rey Perez
Length: TBA

A rebellious and provocative take on what it means to be different, offering a way forward for anyone who wants to blaze their own path, from psychologist Sergi Rufi. 

Do you feel like an outsider? Like a weirdo who doesn’t fit in with what society considers “normal”? Have people ever told you you’re too sensitive or too clever? If so, this... Read more about The Beauty of Being Weird

Compost after Reading

A Practical Manifesto for Purposeful Decomposition

By: Cassandra Marketos
Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
Length: TBA

Get started on your composting journey with this practical, accessible, and fun guide to reducing your waste—including this book when you finish reading!

Composting is so much more than just transforming food into soil; it is deeply existential, radical, and soul-opening. And no, it's not just for gardeners. You can compost in a bowl on your... Read more about Compost after Reading

Liquid Handcuffs

Policing and Punishment in Methadone Clinics and the Future of Opioid Addiction Treatment

By: Helen Redmond, LCSW
Narrated by: Dara Brown
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

A hard-hitting exposé of how methadone clinics fail people in recovery—and an urgent, unapologetic case for their abolition

Methadone is a life-saving medication. But the current system for obtaining it—the opioid treatment program, commonly known as the methadone clinic—is punitive, unjust, and often humiliating. In this eye-opening book, social... Read more about Liquid Handcuffs

Nobody's Baby

Dorothy Gentleman: Book #2

By: Olivia Waite
Narrated by: Blair Baker
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

“This clever novella addresses many real-life issues in an intergalactic sci-fi way. Maybe it’s just a sign of the times and the weight of what’s going on in our world today, with our constantly shifting borders and decision makers. I couldn’t help but think: who makes the rules that affect the lives of the babies who didn’t choose to be born... Read more

The River Has Roots

By: Amal El-Mohtar
Narrated by: Gem Carmella
Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

“An absolutely gorgeous experience of an audiobook. Read more

Seasons of Glass and Iron

Stories

By: Amal El-Mohtar
Narrated by: Rachel Elizabeth Smith
Length: TBA

Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar.

With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these... Read more about Seasons of Glass and Iron

Goddess Complex

A Novel

By: Sanjena Sathian
Narrated by: Rukhmani K. Desai
Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Library Journal • Jezebel’s May Book Club Pick

“Inventive . . . astute . . . sharp and unexpected . . . Haunting and hilarious, Goddess Complex is at once a satire, a Gothic tale, a novel of ideas, a character study. Like any individual life, the... Read more about Goddess Complex

Let the Poets Govern

A Declaration of Freedom

By: Camonghne Felix
Narrated by: Camonghne Felix
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

In this part-memoir, part-manifesto, an acclaimed poet interprets Black radical literary traditions to reimagine freedom through refusal.

“In these fierce yet tender pages, Camonghne Felix reveals how imagination can become a form of governance—an instrument for creating a world rooted in care, community, and radical possibility.”—Michelle... Read more about Let the Poets Govern

Colored People Time

A Case for (Casual) Rebellion

By: Manny Fidel
Narrated by: Manny Fidel
Length: TBA

A celebration of tardiness through funny, revealing, and deeply thoughtful essays on the nature of time and collective memory

In Colored People Time, Manny Fidel explores how race, culture, and history shape not only our lives, but our sense of time itself. Through sharp, personal, and often humorous essays, Fidel... Read more about Colored People Time

Sisters in Yellow

A Novel

By: Mieko Kawakami
Narrated by: Annie Q. Riegel
Length: TBA

From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s.

“I can never forget the sense of pure astonishment I felt when I first read Mieko Kawakami.” —Haruki Murakami

Hana has nothing – she’s fifteen years old and living in a tiny... Read more about Sisters in Yellow

We Do Not Part

A Novel

By: Han Kang
Narrated by: Greta Jung
Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

“This story is lyrical, and poignant. It begins with musings about what things in our lives continue to motivate us; but that’s only the beginning. It is an exploration of friendship, loyalty, determination, and memory. It shows how trauma affects multiple generations. It also displays the courage to look unblinking at the trauma, and to use it... Read more

Death Takes Me

A Novel

By: Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes, Lee Osorio, Ines del Castillo, Fabiola Stevenson, Carlotta Brentan, Mark Sanderlin & Victoria Villarreal
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence.

“Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a] harrowing and labyrinthine masterpiece.”—Katie Kitamura, The New York Times... Read more about Death Takes Me

A Woman's Work

Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering

By: Elinor Cleghorn
Narrated by: Sarah Slimani
Length: TBA

From the author of Unwell Women comes a powerful and groundbreaking new narrative history of motherhood and mothering.

Mothers make history. But what it has meant for mothers to do the physical and emotional work of mothering has, for centuries, been neglected in the stories of the past. Patriarchal control of motherhood has relegated the acts of... Read more about A Woman's Work

A Sharp Endless Need

A Novel

By: Mac (Marisa) Crane
Narrated by: Dani Martineck
Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

“Sapphic yearning: The novel. A Sharp Endless Need revives the teenage experience of being driven nearly mad with passion while having the time and loneliness to pursue it with all you have. Twin obsessions with basketball and her teammate drive our protagonist through her senior year of high school while she comes to terms with the shortcomings... Read more